"The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being."

Being, First, Sound

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Being, Benefits, Duty, World

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Being, Pleasure

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Being, Dignity, May, Water

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Being, Nothing

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Being, Action, Inspirational, Truth, Life

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Being, Man, Woman

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Being, Inspirational, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Being, Key, Language

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"Fact is based upon vulgar matter."

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"The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being."

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"Atlantis will rise again."

Will,

"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."

Truth,

"You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble."

Life, People, Help, Poems

"I'm trying to climb up both walls at once."

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"I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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"Fact is based upon vulgar matter."

"The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being."

"Atlantis will rise again."

"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."

"Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up."

"We all want what's been suddenly disallowed."

"I hope you're representing the devil's advocate."

"You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble."

"I'm trying to climb up both walls at once."

"I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does."